Sunday, August 23, 2020

The Climbing of Mountains from an unwilling Florence

 Where are we now?

Where will we be in a month?

Is your time in a full lockdown? A medium one?

Let me share that this is not just a shutting of the physical door or gate.

Maybe we just feel locked down.... as if there is an enemy waiting outside the door

Waiting for that breath

That touch

Do you feel it?

What do you feel?

It is an isolation from all that we know

From the life we know

Do you hug your friends or do you find yourself awkwardly just moving around them?

Do you kiss your lover eagerly or don't you know who they have been in touch with?

Be safe they say, stay safe they say

I try

I try to encompass that feeling but I am so reluctant to be away from my human need for people

As much as I know that I should remain apart from all that could contaminate my existence

It isn't what I wish

It is time we look to holding our community safely

And in our world we have never seriously had to consider that

because we party

and we travel

and we enjoy our world because we can and should

Shouldn't we?

It is  a lonely journey

So, take those little bits and pieces

of isolated joy

and build them

into mountains

Believe me... I can climb mountains!


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